I often combine many things here and do use the word " chat " liberally as I feel it is like being face-to-face with you and that I am chatting in an unedited, unscripted fashion thus more relaxed and intimate and revealing. I want to tell and share through words and pictures the stories behind things almost casually. I hope it is heart-felt. I add when and where I am to fix them in my time.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

ELGIN VALLEY VINEYARD With Owner Ian Corder , His Wife, Two Children & Four Dogs, With Lunch, Friday, March 20th, 2009: Lovely

Here are just a few of the pictures that I took at ELGIN VALLEY Vineyard on Friday afternoon, March 20th, 2009. I have lots of stories to tell and will shortly of this wonderful afternoon drinking wines in Ian and and Annette Corder's home nestled beautifully in this valley of Elgin valley that has traditionally grown lots and lots of apples.

Ian and Annette treated us to all their wines ( a SauvignonBlanc, a Viognier and a red " Poor Corder " Shiraz ) and to a delicious quiche lunch with homemade bread, too. It was serene and beautiful and with wonderful wine, food and company as well as a clear blue baby sky what more could anyone ask for. I went and laid out on this sweep of a lawn by the house and took a picture of me and the smallest of the four dogs that they own. No worries at all. And look at the lake I took a photo of : it looks a bit like one of the old electric guitars - a Fender possibly?

As you can see by these photos I have changed the order a bit with the first three photos - they should be at the end. I have included photos as John Morrison and I approached Ian and his vineyards. He also grows some PinotNoir. We did not taste any, unfortunately as the vines are still too young. That's something to look forward to later.

I have played a lot with compositions, reflections, shadows, angles to get more out of the pictures that I took. The wines were excellent : I prefered for this afternoon the excellent SauvignonBlanc because it was quite warm and it hit the spot sitting outside.

Stay-tuned for more shortly. Cheers, TONYThis was a wonderful, serene country moment deep in grape and apple country in Elgin Valley, an up-and-coming wine-growing region that is uprooting some apple tree to do this. SuavignonBlanc according to Ian will be a winner. TONY

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

Hi Ian & Annette, Just looked at your website. Looks amazing, looking forward to visiting sometime in the future. I also suggest that you put the last photo at the beginning of the site. You must be of proud of your achievements. Hope that you are also looking at making a really good grape juice for those of us who don't drink wine. Love and best wishes always. Chantie

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Spent the first half of my life overseas with my family and the second half with my wife building our family together here in the United States. ALSO : I consider myself a wine-enabler and someone that , as an artist , always likes to " add to the equation " instead of duplicating it. I love to share my passion for both art and wine and consider the two to be related and indispensable for me in living my life fully and creatively where I am not afraid to stand alone if need be.
At this stage in my life now I am launching into a new directions and have two new pursuits to help me do this : 1) I am now consulting people on the business, love and pursuit of wine both on a private and a public/ business level and so have established my new blog site for that called : chatwinebusinesssavy.blogspot.com to reach out to you , as well as 2) a " new " wine business venture importing the wines of Brazil to the United States called BRALVIN Brazilian Wine & Alcohol at : anthony@bralvin.com as well as : www.bralvin.com. Cheers,AAQ